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Christmas eve.

"Okay I haven't seen you in about a week, but I swear you grew." Alex said.

"Well hey to you too." Piper kissed Alex softly on the cheek.

"You two are so cute!" Polly stepped into the apartment, and closed the door.

"Hi Polly." Alex walked back over to the couch where she was reading, and listening to music.

"So uh, is it just us here tonight?" Polly asked.

"Nicky is coming over too. She said her and Piper had picked a really good movie to watch tonight." Alex answered.

"Oh we did. It's super christmas-y." Piper sat down on the couch beside Alex.

"I look forward to it."

"Do you have any other music?" Polly asked as she rooted through Alex's music. "It's all weird rock stuff."

"Excuse me?" Alex said as she stood up.

"Hey maybe we should turn it off." Piper suggested.

"Yeah fine." Alex turned off the speakers and shot Polly a glare.

Piper and Polly spoke while they waited for Nicky. Alex sat there and listened to their conversation and occasionally added in a word or too.

"Sorry I'm late." Nicky said as she walked through the door.

"Wait, was the door not locked?" Alex asked.

"Apparently not, but I know you don't mind me barging in like this." Nicky took off her shoes and coat as well as her backpack, and put them with the others."Here catch." She threw over a dvd case over to Alex.

"Black Christmas?" Alex questioned.

"What?" Nicky said as she sat down on the couch beside Alex. Piper and Polly were both on the floor. "It has the word christmas in the title… Seemed appropriate."

"Right okay. Pipes you sure your okay to watch this?"

"I should be fine. Besides, I've got you here to protect me." Piper looked behind to Alex and smiled.

Polly took the movie and put the dvd in the player.

Alex's mother was not able to afford a new Tv or cable, so whenever they wanted to watch something at her place, it would either have to be a dvd or one of the few channels they got. It was a miracle when they found a dvd player that actually worked with the Tv.

"Wait don't press play yet." Piper hopped up and went into the kitchen. "we need popcorn." She put a bag in the microwave and waited as it popped. She took the first bag out, and then put in a second.

Piper had two bowls of popcorn in her hand. She handed one to Nicky and Alex, and kept the other for her and Polly.

Polly pressed play.

About 2 minutes into the movie Piper was already getting creeped out. "Fuck this is creepy."

Polly moved over and rested her head on Pipers shoulder. She laughed a bit as Piper looked away. "It's fine Piper."

For a while the movie was pretty calm and everyone was watching the movie contently, but it didn't take long for Piper and Nicky to start getting creeped out.

The first death had to be the scariest for Polly. It startled her so much that she had knocked over the bowl of popcorn. Piper and Polly both grabbed each other and hid their faces.

Alex was paying more attention to Piper's reactions to what was happening instead of the movie.

"Are you even paying attention to what's going on?" Nicky whispered to Alex.

"Yeah." Alex replied as she looked up to the screen.

"I'm sure you are."

The movie was a pretty scary movie that it even had Alex a little scared at times. The scariest part of the movie for Alex had to be the phone calls. The creepy high pitched voice that repeated things and made no sense was so scary that when Piper's phone rang Alex jumped a bit.

"I'm totally not answering that." Piper said as she sent the call to voicemail.

"Okay the killers totally him. It's totally the boyfriend." Polly pointed to the screen.

"No that's way to fucking obvious. It doesn't make sense for it to be him." Nicky replied.

"It totally makes sense to be him! He's creepy enough, and he has a motive."

"Yeah but he didn't before."

"He totally did. She never seemed to have much time for him and-"

"Okay guys shut up and watch the movie." Alex interrupted.

The four of them continued to watch the movie.

"Okay this is terrifying." Piper said as she stood up. "Something's gonna happen here and I'm going to go get something." She walked over to a bag that she had brought over, and pulled out a box of candy canes. She then sat back down and handed them around.

"Well you didn't miss much." Polly said as she took a candy cane.

"Great."

The movie was almost over, and most of them had gotten use to the scariness of the movie. Piper was getting use to it, but she would always anticipate the scare and flinch when she thought something would happen, but nothing did.

"Were out of popcorn." Alex said as she looked over to see if Piper and Polly still had some. They did. She reached down to grab the bowl when Piper stopped her.

"You can come down here if you want some."

Alex didn't hesitate to get off the couch and sit beside Piper. Polly then moved on the couch, which was way more comfortable then the floor.

"Hey." Alex said.

"Hey."

Alex started to lean forward, looking as if she was going in for a kiss, but instead she grabbed a few pieces of popcorn and put them in her mouth. She then took the bowl and put it on her lap.

Piper had thought she was going in for a kiss. "Oh aren't you hilarious." Piper hit Alex's arm.

Alex put her arm around Piper, and watched the movie more intently then before.

"Fuck!" Piper screamed as there was a shot of a dead body. She then covered her face with her hands.

"You are real brave to have chosen this movie." Alex said.

Piper hid her face for the rest of the movie, even though there wasn't much left. When it ended she quickly jumped up and turned on the lights. "Thank fucking god you don't live in some massive house. Nicky have fun going home tonight." She said.

"Oh I'm sure I will after that movie." Nicky replied.

"Shit it's almost 12:30. I need to be getting home." Polly stood up off the couch. "Piper do you need a lift?"

"That would be awesome, thanks."

"Wait, it's Christmas! We need to exchange gifts." Nicky said.

"Yeah!" Alex agreed.

"That movie scared me so much I actually forgot." Piper walked over with a bag that had gifts that people had put in there during the last week of school. They decided they were going to do a secret santa type thing.

Alex walked over to where a small christmas tree was and turned on the lights that hugged the tree.

"Well normally we just hand each other our gift, but since we decided to make it all secret, put the gifts on to the floor, open them, and then guess who it's from… out of the three people there is to guess from." Nicky found it weird that they were doing it with only four people.

Piper put everything on the floor, and handed them to the person it was for.

Polly was the first to open hers. She had gotten the first two seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. "Okay well I totally know who gave me this." She looked over to Piper who had a small smile on her face.

"I remember we use to watch it all the time."

"Well thank you." Polly pulled Piper in for a hug.

"Well Piper, looks like its your turn." Nicky said.

"Right." She opened up her gift. "Holy crap it's Jell-O. Wow." There were about five box's of Jell-O, most of them strawberry, but one lime.

"They didn't have five strawberry ones for some fucking reason, so i grabbed a lime. I threw in a $10 iTunes gift card in there as well." Nicky pointed to a card that had fallen on the floor.

"Well that didn't take long to figure out." Piper chuckled.

"Shit, sorry." Nick started to laugh. "I'm so not use to this."

"Well looks like it's my turn to open mine." Nicky took her gift and opened it and revealed a dvd. "The Ring, nice one Vause." She looked up and smiled at Alex. "What? She gets me a horror movie every year."

"It's true. This turned out to be a pretty lame secret santa… Didn't take anyone any real guessing." Alex said as she took her present and started to open it. She knew it was from Polly, and she had no idea what it would be.

"I hope you like it. I heard it was a really good book and you read a lot so…"

"Yeah thanks. This guy is an amazing author, wow. Thank you." Alex was sort of surprised at the gift. John Irving was one of the best authors she knew.

Alex took all the ripped up wrapping paper and threw in into the garbage. She then went over to the front door where everyone was getting ready to leave. She said goodbye to Nicky and Polly, and the two walked down the stairs and got into their cars. Polly waited for Piper to come down.

"Before you go, I got something for you." Alex walked into her room, and came about shortly after. "I didn't get a chance to wrap it, and it's really not much. I just thought it would look good on you."

Piper took the bag, and opened it. She pulled out a black beanie. She smiled. "Thank you." She put it on.

"Well I was right, you do look good in it." Alex said as she kissed Piper.

"Marry Chirstmas Alex."

"Merry Christmas Pipes." She watched Piper walk down the stairs, and then she closed the door.

She sighed and made her way into her bedroom. She was never really a holiday person, they were nothing special for her. This year was made just a little more special by Piper. She was with both people she cared for a lot, she just always hated Christmas Eve because her mother would always have to work a night shift. She never understood why she couldn't get out of work.

Alex woke up around 12:00. She put her messy hair up, put her glasses on, and walked out into the living room. She smelt bacon cooking, and went into the kitchen.

"Merry Christmas honey." Diane turned around and gave Alex a hug.

"Merry Christmas mom."

The two of them normally made pancakes, bacon, and eggs for breakfast on christmas morning. When Alex was younger she would always wake up early from excitement. She would help with making the food. The two of them would eat and then open presents.

This year was the same thing, except as Alex got older, she stopped getting up early to help cook.

"So how was work?" Alex asked as she put a few pancakes on her plate.

"Boring as hell. The store is only open for those idiots who forget to get a gift for someone, but that rarely happens. Next year I'm going to say no to those assholes."

"Why do you always work on Christmas Eve anyway?"

"I get payed more to do it, and we always seem to need it."

"Right."

The two of them ate their food in silence.

After they were done they both cleaned up, and put the dishes away. They then went into the living room. Alex handed her mother a present that she had wrapped, although it wasn't wrapped that well.

"Holy shit Alex, this is amazing." Her mother said as she unwrapped a huge box that held a very nice pan. "I've wanted one of these for years, how the hell did you get this? They're really fucking expensive."

"I saved up from my job I had over the summer."

"Oh right, wow, you better work on film sets for the rest of your life."

"Trust me, they aren't all that fun."

"Well still, thank you so much." Diane gave her a big tight hug. When they pulled away, she reached over and gave Alex one of her presents.

Alex opened it up and pulled out a nice new leather jacket. "Shit this is beautiful."

"Isn't it? I saw it and i just knew it was meant for you. I know you are really attached to that old worn out one, but this is meant for you."

"Oh thank you so much. Wow."

"Okay now I know you love your converse, but I think you'll like these as well." Diane handed Alex the other present that was by their small tree.

"I do love my converse." She opened the box. "But okay now I like these." She said as she saw her new pair of black leather Dr. Martens. "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome, now come one. Let's clean up this… small mess." Diane stood up and grabbed a bit of the wrapping paper that was all over the floor. Alex followed her.

When Alex went back to read a book in the living room, she noticed one more present sitting under the tree. "Hey mom, what's this by the tree?"

"Piper gave that to me to give to you." She yelled from the kitchen.

Alex went over and picked up it up. She then took it into her room to open it. There was a card attached to it, so she read that first.

Merry Christmas Al. I remembered that you liked this band a lot. Well, you never told me, I remembered from the first night I slept over. I was looking through the many CD's in your room, and I noticed this band was everywhere.
I stumbled across this and I thought of you, so I really do hope you like it.

- xo Piper

Alex smiled. Something made Piper think of Alex, and that alone was enough for her. She ripped the wrapping paper to discover a vinyl record for the band Death Maiden. "Ohmygod." She whispered.

She had opened it to the back of the cover, and when she turned it around to the front she noticed something.

It was signed by the drummer of the band.

Alex's eyes started to water a bit. She wasn't sure exactly what she was feeling and towards who, but this meant a lot to her. This meant the world to her; and the fact that Piper had even remembered such a small thing from so long ago made her heart feel warm.

"Thank you Piper." She whispered.

So... next chapter is the start of their trip... So get excited for that!